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Can I use MythTV without using my cable companies provided cable box?

Description: when I purchased Digital Cable service from my cable provider that made it clear that the movie channels, On Demand Channels, and Music channels can only be accessed through the receiver box that they rent to me.

If I go with MythTV or any other kind of Home Theater PC I'd like to remove that requirement.

Answer:

Typically, no. If you have digital cable, the only way to receive the stations is through the receiver box. The good news is, most receiver boxes can be controlled by myth, either via serial, usb, firewire, or an IR Blaster. SOME digital cable users say that they can also receive analog stations off the same cable....but I would expect that number to be dropping as everyone is moving to digital.

This sort of question should probably go on the FAQ page, somebody should add it when we finish the FAQ page

Baylink, I can begin to manually bring it over if the idea is that the FAQ will end up officially residing here? David, thoughts? Also, is this a FAQ or is it the official documentation, because on mythtv.org it is listed as "Documentation".--Steveadeff 19:35, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Since Frequently Asked Questions is already cooking, can we focus our energy on that one? I don't know if there is much here that is salvageable. --Gregturn 23:53, 28 February 2006 (UTC)